Boundary 1: Listen to the Father, not the crowd. When I feel out of breath from doing too much, I ask myself, How did I get into doing all this? How did it all end up on me?
At first, I list the immediate reasons: The project took longer than I thought it would. I wasn't planning on two people quitting the committee.
But when I dig deeper, I usually find buried in ...
As pastors, our relationships and roles overlap and, at times, overwhelm us. We may acknowledge the boundaries that should exist, but we are constantly tempted to ignore them—those relational and vocational borders that separate our pastoral responsibilities from our personal needs.
Navigating Rough Waters
Our familiar territories of commitment usually include marriage, parenting, administration, ...
ARTICLE Capture The essential survival skill for leaders buckling under information overload. Kevin A. Miller
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Pity your poor mail carriers. Their shoulders must burn under the mailbag strap as they haul each day's load. On a recent day, chosen at random, my mail drop included:
a brochure promising (for only $1,495) an "intensive, hands-on workshop" from which you "go back to your office with a complete solution-oriented plan."
a four-page flyer (see the metallic inks shine!) about a Web site that will give me "innovation, perspective, and impact."
Let me begin with a simple, wonderfully freeing premise: You do not need to know everything.
A few short generations ago, it could rightly be said, Information Is Power. That was true when there wasn't enough of it. Today, the motto should read: Information Is Fatigue. We get too much information, and a high percentage of that information is inane, meaningless, enervating. Do I really need to know ...
Many discussions of a pastor's tasks start with the advice to plan one's work. This sounds eminently plausible. The only thing wrong with it is that it rarely works. The plans remain on paper as good intentions. They seldom turn into achievements.
The first step toward effective pastoral time-management is to record actual time-use. The specific method in which the record is put together need not concern ...
God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from his work of creation. Genesis 2:3
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But I've never heard of anything called guilt-free resting. If anything, busyness is increasingly becoming a badge of honor, and Christian leaders are among the best at claiming that badge of honor. Imagine a scenario of four Christian leaders trying to establish a time ...
DEVOTIONS Need To Be Needed In the Old Testament, David found out that even those he counted on turned against him. Ted Roberts
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David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag, They had attacked Ziklag and burned it, and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way.
When David and his men came to Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters ...
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